Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May 1947)[1] is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
She has published on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and on the body and madness in African literature.
Flora Wild was born in West Germany in 1947,[2] and originally studied French and German languages and literature at university.
[7] In 1986 she met Dieter Riemenschneider in Harare, who subsequently supervised a PhD dissertation by Veit-Wild on the social history of Zimbabwean literature, which she gained in Anglistik from Frankfurt University in 1991.
[8] The academic Agnieszka Piotrowska made a 2014 film about Veit-Wild's relationship with Marechera, Flora and Dambudzo.